Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Does Storage Manager support >2GB tables?

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (maillist)
Cc: dg(at)illustra(dot)com, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, chris(at)topdog(dot)pas1(dot)logicon(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Does Storage Manager support >2GB tables?
Date: 1998-03-13 14:49:01
Message-ID: 199803131449.JAA12924@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Yes, the threading topic has come up before, and I have never considered
> it a big win. We want to remove the exec() from the startup, so we just
> do a fork. Will save 0.001 seconds of startup.
>
> That is a very easy win for us. I hadn't considered the synchonization
> problems with palloc/pfree, and that could be a real problem.

I was wrong here. Removing exec() will save 0.01 seconds, not 0.001
seconds. Typical backend startup and a single query is 0.08 seconds.
Removal of exec() will take this down to 0.07 seconds.

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